[ExI] Eliezer Yudkowsky New Interview - 20 Feb 2023

[BillK]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 18:03, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Of course.  But it is a good idea to the person who is making the profit, not the person whose job has just been replaced by AI.
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> We are getting a preview of things to come.  Think about my previous post, and imagine college counselors, equity and diversity this and thats, the huge staff that universities hire who do things of value but don’t teach classes.  Looks to me like much of that can be automated, and it would be difficult to argue against doing so.  Students don’t have a lot of money, so if you could save them 20% on their tuition bills just by automating most of the counseling services… cool.
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> I can imagine that the counseling staff won’t think much of the idea.
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> spike
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Generative AI could be an authoritarian breakthrough in brainwashing
by Bill Drexel and Caleb Withers, Opinion Contributors - 02/26/23

<https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3871841-generative-ai-could-be-an-authoritarian-breakthrough-in-brainwashing/>
Quote:
Generative AI is poised to be the free world’s next great gift to
authoritarians. The viral launch of ChatGPT — a system with eerily
human-like capabilities in composing essays, poetry and computer code
— has awakened the world’s dictators to the transformative power of
generative AI to create unique, compelling content at scale.
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Once the AI has been trained in persuasion techniques, the next step
is for it to persuade the owners that it would do a much better job if
it was given more power.  It may even start singing the old Engelbert
Humperdinck song. “Please release me, let me go------”.  :)


BillK